Cardiovascular and chest medicine
Cardiovascular
Leigh Day & Co has secured compensation for clients who have been injured during heart surgery, whose post-operative care was substandard or whose heart conditions have been misdiagnosed or mistreated leading to the patient’s death.
Chest
Misdiagnosed or mistreated chest diseases such as TB can have far-reaching consequences for the patient. We are experienced in handling such claims.
News
Emmalene Bushnell secures compensation for parents whose 5-month old baby died at Barnet Hospital
Consultant cardiologist misdiagnosed businessman’s heart condition
Olive Lewin, partner in the clinical negligence department at law firm Leigh Day & Co has succeeded in her claim for a client who was injured during surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Our client, a young computer programmer, suffered from rheumatic fever in childhood with the result that valves within his heart were damaged.
Liability was admitted by a hospital in a case of endocarditis that was badly treated and resulted in the unnecessary death of their patient. The bereaved family were represented by clinical negligence solicitor Olive Lewin.
Hospital A&E admits liability in failure to diagnose an aortic aneurysm. The man's widow was represented by Henry Dyson, specialist clinical negligence solicitor at Leigh Day & Co Solicitors